Stuck at work.

[1] Me too. It's my big 4-0 today y'all so have a beer on me. If that's not your thing I'll have an extra one later. : ) Go Yankees!

um, that's not a good start.

[2] Happy Birthday, and welcome to the club! today, is my brother's birthday and college mentor. good day!

I hope the Yankees bring you a sweeping win and I'll have that birthday beer for you tomorrow night!

chase should have some errors taken off his ledger after that frame!

[2] Happy birthday. OK, you talked me into a beer tonight.

it's time for chris young to come back to earth. today is the day.

Let's Go YAN-KEES!! !!!

Happy birthday [2]. Ok if I have one now? A cold bottle of Guiness perhaps.

C'mon Pineda, settle down.

great start for Chase on both sides of the orb!

crap. tex just missed it.

and i'll miss most of the rest of the game...

GO YANKS!!!

McCann certainly can!

15 straight!

Mac!

Maybe Didi needs a larger glove? Or maybe I'm being too generous? Earlier in year I said he needed to break his glove in more. Now I just think he doesn't have good instincts on glove placement.

Didi doesn't seem to make the plays he gets to. Excellent range but.... maybe it's a confidence thing.

Gardy gets out of the box pretty quick, doesn't he?

Alex. Wow, he certainly smoked that!

YES!!!!

fuck yeah, A-Rod!!!!!!

Lovely!

Goddam it! I heard the McCann homer, and heard the top of this inning, but then I missed about five minutes and a 3-run bomb. Jeez.

crush and do damage.

[16] He does have excellent range though.

Whoo-hoo, Alex!

Number 3 on the all time RBI list.

Happy birthday, Ara!

More evidence that Beltan is a DR playing RF.

Damn spell check. DH playing RF.

I'm getting a little annoyed at all our WPs.

Also, not happy about this inning. Better get this Moussaka guy.

Hold it together, big fella. Time for a couple of K's, dude.

Ahhh. High heat.
One to go to get out of it.

Great k

There's one. Way to change the eye level.

0-2. Put him away.

Nifty. Way to go, Hoss.

Way to go big guy!

YES!!!

and, on that note, i'm headed to woik.

GO YANKS!!!

Oh, man.
That was very impressive.

I hope Cashman is thinking about how to sign Big Mike up for about six years.

Happy sweeping, thelarmis.

Archer vs. King Felix, scoreless in the seventh.

Should be an E 4.

Nice, six K in six. After that rocky beginning.

Excellent game for Michael. I think it's time for him to take a seat.

But not Carpenter

44) 3 more outs? Or he the big guy done for the day?

When is the Drew experiment deemed a failure? And Slade is looking good.

Yes. I'd keep Mike in another inning, or at least part of next.

48) Here, here.

Michael is at almost 100 pitches and his fastball is down to 91. But I guess Joe will have a quick hook.

Still looks good to me.

I know they're trying to be careful with him, but he looks strong.

Excellent outing.

A well-deserved standing O.

[52] 6 2/3 innings = one outing.

[45] Why not Carpenter?

:-)

Well, that was completely fucking pointless

I used to swear that when Torre was the manager and he had someone awful he would keep playing them as a statement until Cashman dumped the player.

I'm beginning to think that's what Girardi is doing with Carpenter.

Nice job by Mike.

No small amount of whew.

Felix and Archer went eight scoreless. Boxberger in for Tampa: K, K, BB, BB. Let's see the other True Outcome now from Cruz...

Excellent.

Nelson Cruz delivers the third True Outcome! 3-0 Mariners.

60) Dag.

Eight strike-em-outs for Mike, by the way.

May we have another?

Alex is on a roll.

Wow, King Felix returns to knock down a CG shutout, striking out two Rays in the ninth.

How about a slump-buster, Chris?

67) I must bust balls, a shutout is a CG, no?

End of ball busting.

Love, Mr. Correct.

Big Pine gets his strike em outs when he needed em. And our Carpenter is a Lady, not a pitcher.

A walk. Darnit.

Way to stick with that curve. Looks like he's got no control over it, still comes back to get the K.

[69] can't a team shut out an opponent without a complete game by the starter?

Oh, fine, Mr. Correct. I'm sure there's never a redundancy in the postings on Ball Busting Bronx Banter.

Oh, fuck.
But, he has great range, you know.

Not an Earned Run though, right??

Toughen up, Dellin.

Didi plays the field like a talented rookie, but rookie he's not.

Oh, beautiful. Whatever McCann said, he was right.

That's my Didi, tried to replicate the Jeter flip play.

I wonder what Drew thought about that play.

[78] Great range, though.

Jesus. He struck out the side anyway.

Home to see the 9th. Better late than never.

Gameday is counting the run as Earned. I think that's wrong -- it scored on a throwing error and the next two batters struck out.

I really hope so. I like that big 0 next to Betances's name.

[82] I suspect not enough to make a home here.

[84] Kay called it unearned...

I wonder what Slade's parents are like?

phew.

[85] (I always write "great range, though" when Didi does something irritating or incompetent.)

74) Ha. Guilty as charged. You know I'm just playin'...

Gameday changed the run to unearned. Whew.

Yahoo sports is also counting it as unearned.

I hate meetings. Especially ones that run on too long because some have to talk about things that don't interest me at all.

BoSox lose. Jays in extras.

I know, it's too early to watch the standings.

[89] nodding, understood, smiling.

[90] :-)
I do know.

Hey, I made some limoncello. It worked out great. I will send you a photo of the enticing bottle.

That's one.

[89] Wolf is a great range, but can't expect good baseball from it.

95) Nice. I was just up in Vermont. My father-in-law has asparagus coming out in the garden. Olive oil, salt and pepper, threw them on the grill, finished them with a tarragon viangrette.

Well, Hell's Bells that was quick. Thank you Mr. Miller.

Now, that's the way to end a homestand.

And thanks for the kind words, gang. Sweep em up. Slainte!